key terms around representation

MALE GAZE – The male gaze is depicting women and the world, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer.

VOYEURISM – The practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.

PATRIACHY – a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

POSITIVE STEREOTYPE –  encourages a certain attitude on how we see things and how things are accepted

NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE –  encourages a certain attitude on how we see things and how things are not accepted.

COUNTER – TYPES – a representation that highlights the positive features of a person or group.

MISREPRESENTATION – False claims or ideas about how people are represented. This can give the wrong idea about someone.

SELECTIVE REPRESENTATION – When groups or people are selected to important positions and represent the majority.

DOMINATNT IDEOLOGY –  values and beliefs in a group or social majority.

CONSTRUCTED REALITY – the way we present ourselves to other people is shaped partly by our interactions with others, as well as by our life experiences.

HEGEMONY – Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.

AUDEIENCE POSTIONING – Audience positioning refers to the techniques used by the creator of a text to try to get the audience to understand the ideology of the text.

NEGORIATED IDENTITY –  refers to the processes through which perceivers come to agreements regarding the identities that targets are to assume in the interaction.

COLLECITVE IDENTITY – refers to all the affective aspects deriving from belonging to certain groups with which adolescents identify themselves and which place them within certain social categories such as ethnicity, nationality, or gender.

FLUIDITY OF IDENTITY – Having a fluid identity means having the ability to change how you see yourself, the world, and your actions.

CONSTRUCTED IDENTITY – individuals’ sense of belonging to a group.

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